Olympic dressage rider Arjen Teeuwissen dies elderly 53

The Netherlands’ Olympic medal-winning dressage rider Arjen Teeuwissen has died, elderly 53.

The Dutch nationwide federation KNHS showed that Arjen gave up the ghost abruptly on 29 March. He lived within the Netherlands till 1998, then moved to Belgium.

Arjen Teeuwissen used to be a former Dutch champion, and in 1999 he and KWPN gelding Goliath T had been a part of the silver medal-winning staff on the Eu Dressage Championships, on house soil in Arnhem. The staff of Arjen and Goliath, Anky van Grunsven and Bonfire, Ellen Bontje and Silvano and Coby van Baalen and Ferro, had been 2d to Germany, whilst Denmark took bronze. Arjen and Goliath received particular person bronze.

The next 12 months Arjen and Goliath had been 3rd on the Global Cup Ultimate in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, and the pair went directly to compete on the Sydney Olympic Video games, Australia, the place they received staff silver. In 2001 they received staff and particular person silver on the Europeans in Verden, Germany.

The 2003 Europeans at Hickstead used to be Arjen’s final world festival with Goliath, who later sustained an damage after which retired. Arjen persisted to coach and compete nationally for various years, and returned to the world area for one festival in 2013, the Kapellen CDI3*, in Belgium, with Silver ‘n’ Brass.

In an interview with CHIO Rotterdam in 2022, Arjen mentioned he used to be now not energetic in game and that every one his horses were bought, including that he used to be supporting his husband Frank within the catering trade.

A spokesman for KNHS mentioned the organisation “needs Arjen’s kinfolk numerous power with this monumental loss”.

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